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...first play, a one-acter called The Room, debuts at Bristol University. About a mysterious visitor to a down-at-heel apartment, it sets the tone for the major Pinter plays to come...
...Perhaps it is that complexity which has prevented Pinter from having the commercial big-screen hits enjoyed by other playwrights, such as David Mamet (The Untouchables) and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons). Pinter's 22-strong movie output, however, is critically distinguished - particularly a three-film collaboration with director Joseph Losey (including the creepy Dirk Bogarde-James Fox classic The Servant), and his John Fowles adaptation, The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...what about Pinter the man? In his speech of thanks on being awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1995, he acknowledged, "I am well aware that I have been described ... as enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding." Yet colleagues say his reputation as the angry old man of British theater is unfair, even if he did turn down a knighthood from Prime Minister John Major saying, "I would not accept such recognition from a Conservative government." "He's passionate, with a very short fuse," says Hall, "but he's also extremely warm and kind." Ian Holm recalls...
...Unlike the works of John Osborne and the "angry young men" of the 1960s, or the political playwrights of the 1970s, Pinter's writing is not dependent on any particular time, location or ideology. It deals with human nature, with the way we continue to probe each other's weaknesses. So the work will not date. And so far, with characteristic determination, its author refuses to. He may be 70, but Mr. Cuddles will continue to excite and horrify us for some time to come...
...Pinter is born in East London...